I love old house tours, you are an excellent tour guide! I think the below stairs people’s lives are much more interesting. I also appreciate all your research including many facts and photos, I always look forward to your videos.
Oh my, just realized I'm a snob , whenever I heard of Great Yarmouth I'd shrink back, to me it meant Chav'ille, spud town, but today, thanks to you, I fell in love with the place, Who'dda thought!.
You know I was exactly the same, I thought oh god, not chips and rock (even though I love chips and rock) but it packed full of history and some of the surrounding towns are just stunning! The people are SO NICE too.
Love this place so much , the courtyard is a favourite place of my husband's and mine, we sat out there and could not hear any traffic , it was very calming x
It's beautiful isn't it - amazing you can't hear any traffic as the road outside is SO busy! Clever architecture affording a bit of privacy in chaos, thanks for joining me x
The first washing machine my mum owned had a mangle fixed on top of it. As a seven year old I remember having to help her fold and then catch the sheets as she rolled them through.
My Dad was terrified of mangles because he got his hands trapped in it as a kid, wonder how many others nearly had their hands smooshed - or maybe my dad didn't listen to the warning 😧
That squirrel party is so out there! I was watching with such reverence, attempting to think serious thoughts about architecture and history, then that popped up!! Thanks for another great video, Lucy. This is a fascinating house. All the carved wood and the Morris-repro paper-lovely
Honestly I walked into that room thinking it looked all a bit boring and "for kids" and spotted that against the wall - I love wacky things like that, make my day! Lifted my mood for sure :)
I've been enjoying your tours. I really like your style of storytelling, and you do your research on the places you visit. Keep it up, you're doing a great job!
Makes you realise how lucky we are now. My Mum's first washing machine was a 20 litre kerosine tin with the side cut out and she had a baby so nappies galore, this was in the early 1950's.
I remember my Mom boiling nappy's in a big metal pan on the hob - this was in the 80s! I remember the smell of the detergent and the steam. Your comment really sparked that memory for me!
Your video vloggs get better always full of interesting facts about where you are and all about the trips always god bless you always 😊a true England fan 😊 always
That was so cool! I liked how they set up through different eras to show space use through time. That plaster ceiling was absolutely gorgeous and that stained glass was also something else. I loved the snark when you commented on the fainting couch how the lady of the house had a place to rest after a hard day of ordering others about. 😂. Thanks for taking us along! It was a treat!
I like these smaller houses especially the " downstairs " parts it was really interesting to hear about the origin of night,night sleep tight something my Mum always said and me too ! ❤
I have not been to Great Yarmouth since I was about 12, but it still looks SO familiar. My grandad visited Yarmouth at least a couple of times a year, he loved it Isn’t the architecture gorgeous? This was a fascinating house to explore! Hope you had a fab time over there
I loved it, honestly I was surprised how much I liked it. Norfolk stole my heart! Can't wait to go back! Always head West to Wales so it was a lovely coastal change.
Hi Lucy, absolutely loved the mooch round the house. So many interesting things. Hope you are having a great holiday. Am looking forward to your next discovery. Thank for your work and bringing history alive.
I remember my Gran using a mangle when we lived with her in the early 70s - the buttons on her stocking tops would get caught. And I'm told we were washed in a tin bath in front of the fire... Though Mum very swiftly bought a caravan bath and water heater at the local auction rooms and put a bathroom in!
Another fabulous video well enjoyed!! What a beautiful house + your humour is always a highlight + ended off with a very honest and true message about helping maintain these places with our patronage!
Absolutely. I'm always shocked how many places I go to and I'm the only person there .. or one another lonely soul wandering around with guidebook. These places are so important!
@@throughlucyslens it breaks my heart! It's hard being in a country that's dripping in hundreds and hundreds of years of history all around us, people forget how good we have it, or worse, only think that you find history in a museum and don't stop to even look around them.
Absolutely and I was shocked to be honest. Between us (and anyone else that reads this) I thought I would hate it, thought it would be all arcades and chips .. which I do like, but not for a whole week!
Thanks for another interesting video Lucy! I think the bed had a braided rush pad over the ropes. They did that so you didn't feel the ropes through the mattress.
What a really interesting house! That they wanted to present several different generations of owners, and the way the home would have looked when they lived there makes the house more quirky and appealing. It’s got character, doesn’t it?
Hi Lucy, thank you for sharing. Love looking around houses and have never been to this one so will have to add it to our list. Looks wonderful. Hope you enjoy your holiday. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ♥
I am Dutch 😅Half way through this super interesting vlog. Yesss Dutch text in the window. Quite a puzzle though... looks like a warning to watch out when the wind comes your way... because everything can change in an instant... ~ great vlog Lucy!🌷
Thanks Lucy ❤ What a beautiful beach & I’m so glad that house has been saved, so fascinating to see how people lived all those years ago. You know what always surprises me is the snobbery between staff members. I would have thought that they would have been really supportive to each other but no status in the household ruled.
Absolutely! It's the same in an office, when I used to do admin work years ago someone with the same job felt superior because they had been there years before - we humans are funny old things aren't we?
Been in the Elizabethan house before, the displays are quite different. The conspiracy room when I went in the house had a couple of mannequins in 17th century clothes sitting at the table. If you like this house, there is a similar but bigger house in Ipswich called the Christchurch mansion.
I'm glad they moved the mannequins, they always freak me out and make me laugh in equal measure - especially if they are bad ones! Thanks for your lovely comment and I'll check that other place out; I can't wait to go back to this neck of the woods x
WOW Lucy - I've been to Great Yarmouth so many times, visiting a friend who lived in Caister on sea. I NEVER knew about this house ! It looks fantastic and of course, you did it perfect justice. Sadly, my friend is no longer with us, and I can't see myself returning to GY any time soon. Thank you so much for finding these places and letting us in on your adventures. Fascinating piece of information about 'sleep tight' ! Thanks Lucy for all you do. Take care 🙂
Thank you. I'm sorry to hear about your friend, Caister-on-Sea is beautiful. We stopped off there on the trip home for a fry up in a lovely greasy spoon! Glad you enjoyed the video and love having you come along with me for the ride x
Thank you for letting us mooch around with you!!!❤ Yes the house is a hod-podge of all of the peoples lives and experiences. I think that's pretty neat, but some who want everything to match and be cohesive might freak out a little. Lololol!!!! Just wanted to let you know also about the toilet video, I'm not very sure she was Dutch, considering my mom and I were the genealogy folks of our family. So I don't have any idea where she'd come up with it. I've never heard anyone else say it. So Lucy, thank you again for being our tour guide so we can all mooch around with you! Love 💕 Heather from Iowa USA.
Very welcome. I love taking you! Yes I imagine fans of highly curated museums would freak at this one indeed 🤣 I love it when I have absolutely no clue what's coming and this place did that in spades!
That was a lovely video. Right up my street! My favourite part was the stained glass windows. Its a shame they are original to the house though. I used to work, voluntary, at Lyme Park in Disley and I really disliked the house there. It's tiny with cramped little rooms, and it's very dark. I would love to work here at this house, though.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Sometimes I do visit places that are so dark and cramped: I recently visited a place in Sussex for the channel and it was so dark and cramped I couldn't do a video even though it would have been interesting.
I loved every minute of this video Lucy, thank you 😊 What a fascinating place to have a nosey round 😀 I remember wash day when I was young, it was always on a Monday and we had a washing machine of sorts, a tub that you filled up with water which heated up, and of course there was a mangle! I was always puzzled that you added a bag of blue to make the whites look whiter, it made no sense to me!😄
Yes!! The blue powder - totally unrelated (but that's what I'm like) I have some friends in the Middle East and their whites were soooo white it took my breath away - they still use the blue powder and of course the hot sun to bleach the washing. Never seen white linen like it 🤣
@@throughlucyslens Oooh, how lovely ☺ I've done a bit of digging around on the Internet and found that it was called Recketts Bag Blue, there's even an article on it on the National Trust website 😀
Hi Lucy! We actually love the Tudor/Elizabethan and Medieval periods and would love to see more of those houses, etc. We love the early half timber thatched cottages and would love to see some of those that might be museums as well. Love you and your channel! Thank you! Greetings from Adam and Mary in our little 250 year old cottage in New Hampshire, USA!
Amazing, that's great to hear and really opens my horizons too. I've been struggling to find the post 1950s houses to explore,'I've made some enquiries but nothing yet - I know of literally hundreds of older places I can show you.
That must have been like paradise coming from B'ham to a beach(OK which is closer B'ham or Amsterdam to Yarmouth)! There we are, Basil Brush can trace his ancestry - lol ! If there is a knife cleaner by a tap just use the tap(sell the knife cleaner) ! Talking about that method of washing, it was far worse if you lived in a coal mining area in the early times ! If you went on a detour, end up at Bernard Matthews's mansion, bootiful !
Amsterdam I reakon.. the drive up the A47 felt like it took a whole day 🤣 ohhh I kept talking about Bernard M and his Norfolk turkeys while we were there!
Hi Lucy love your videos I have subscribed now too if you listen to the part when you said do you believe that at time on vid 7.11 a quite man's voice says yeah please will you listen it sounds like a spirit voice please let me know if you heard it it was clear xx
the phrase "sleep tight" is supposed to come from the use of ropes on a bed. and tightening them up to get a good sleep. But that is perpetrated ? to being a myth!
There are conflicting theories all over the internet pertaining to the word tight in the saying actually meaning "to sleep safe" but I can't find any solid evidence for either. Maybe it's just a lovely quirk.
Have a bit of a research on the electric shock thing.. it wasn't what you are thinking.. they are commonly on sale everywhere these days it seems.. battery operated.. they were designed to give the Dr's a rest from the manual stimulation they were expected to do, for females suffering hysteria.. there's lots of images of these to be found from the actual era.. but I think you may find it funny if you were not aware of what the machine was really used to do 😂
Oh man.. I do know about them 🤣🤣🤣 that's kind of grim isn't it ... if you are interested in the more unspoken history I can really recommend a podcast called Betwixt the Sheets - it's blinking brilliant! ❤️
@throughlucyslens yes it's hideous.. but most things are to do with the treatment of women. Surane Jones did a great history perspective of witches and Prof Ron Hutton was on there.. he's a great person to listen to on podcast too.. thanks for the tip I shall seek it out!
Hi Lucy, I am so glad you uploaded a video today! I must tell ya I got the biggest laugh when you took a sniff of that bar of soap then said “ I just love the smell of carbolic soap. “ I thought “huh, what does CAR BOLLOCK SOAP, smell like??” I thought about it for a moment let my imagination run wild and said to myself, “self, why not turn on the cc, she’s a UK woman who has the same sort of accent as one of your fave old time rock n rollers Ozzy Osborne.”Turned on the CC and Sure enough, it carbolic soap! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🧼🧼🧼🧼. I never heard of it before, now I know! Take care, thanks for the laugh & the tour it was great! Have a great week! 💕🇺🇸
Aww thank you! Yes I indeed share an accent with Ozzy! He was born in Aston maybe 5 or so miles away from where I am sat now. His house is still there but it's privately owned now. Glad I gave you a laugh, I'm always "paranoid"'about my accent (get it? 🤣) ❤️
@@throughlucyslens hey girl! Linda C here! Yes we had this discussion via text and your e mail account. Talking bout Beatles and your fave mo ie by Them Backbeat and me not being able to see it change of VPIN or not. Boo!
@@throughlucyslens yeah so I’ve been trying to stay away from the elections over here. Reading bout the mess in the UK too. It’s horrible but I get it…people are scared where their next meal coming from, the rich getting richer….come on….Who can spend a Billion in their lifetime?? Crazy! I hope you’re ok, and do not do not do not change your accent…it’s soooooo cool! Take care now 💕Linda C
I love old house tours, you are an excellent tour guide! I think the below stairs people’s lives are much more interesting. I also appreciate all your research including many facts and photos, I always look forward to your videos.
Thank you. I LOVE making them, best part of my week. I'm in the zone and I'm ready to learn - very glad you enjoy them :)
Thank you for the visit, always happy to tag along!
Love having you with me Anne :)
Oh my, just realized I'm a snob , whenever I heard of Great Yarmouth I'd shrink back, to me it meant Chav'ille, spud town, but today, thanks to you, I fell in love with the place, Who'dda thought!.
You know I was exactly the same, I thought oh god, not chips and rock (even though I love chips and rock) but it packed full of history and some of the surrounding towns are just stunning! The people are SO NICE too.
I live in Norwich, and did not know this museum existed. Will give it look. Thank you for the video. ❤
You are welcome! It's a lovely little place x
Wow! My son only asked me last night, where the expression "good night, sleep tight" came from!
Lovely video as usual Lucy.
Aww thank you, It's such a bizarre saying really isn't it - but makes sense when you think how practical it used to be!
Love this place so much , the courtyard is a favourite place of my husband's and mine, we sat out there and could not hear any traffic , it was very calming x
It's beautiful isn't it - amazing you can't hear any traffic as the road outside is SO busy! Clever architecture affording a bit of privacy in chaos, thanks for joining me x
The first washing machine my mum owned had a mangle fixed on top of it. As a seven year old I remember having to help her fold and then catch the sheets as she rolled them through.
My Dad was terrified of mangles because he got his hands trapped in it as a kid, wonder how many others nearly had their hands smooshed - or maybe my dad didn't listen to the warning 😧
@@throughlucyslens Ouch! I was warned and, fortunately, didn't suffer.
I do so look forward to your videos. Your joy and enthusiasm shine through, its a sheer and utter joy. Thank-you
Thank you! This one was really exciting as I went in completely "blind" with no idea what to expect!
Yay, she is back! 😊
Here she is :)
That squirrel party is so out there! I was watching with such reverence, attempting to think serious thoughts about architecture and history, then that popped up!!
Thanks for another great video, Lucy. This is a fascinating house. All the carved wood and the Morris-repro paper-lovely
Honestly I walked into that room thinking it looked all a bit boring and "for kids" and spotted that against the wall - I love wacky things like that, make my day! Lifted my mood for sure :)
Thanks Lucy. I really enjoyed the tour.
Thanks Sally, I loved this little house :)
I've been enjoying your tours. I really like your style of storytelling, and you do your research on the places you visit. Keep it up, you're doing a great job!
Thank you so much, really appreciate it. I absolutely love making them ❤️
Gorgeous staircase
Beautiful isn't it - very comfortable carpet too (I always appreciate a stair case easy on the knees!)
Makes you realise how lucky we are now. My Mum's first washing machine was a 20 litre kerosine tin with the side cut out and she had a baby so nappies galore, this was in the early 1950's.
I remember my Mom boiling nappy's in a big metal pan on the hob - this was in the 80s! I remember the smell of the detergent and the steam. Your comment really sparked that memory for me!
Your video vloggs get better always full of interesting facts about where you are and all about the trips always god bless you always 😊a true England fan 😊 always
Thank you SO much. Your comments always make me smile x
Lovely visit, Lucy, to this quirky house! I enjoyed looking around it through your video!
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it! I loved it too x
That was so cool! I liked how they set up through different eras to show space use through time. That plaster ceiling was absolutely gorgeous and that stained glass was also something else. I loved the snark when you commented on the fainting couch how the lady of the house had a place to rest after a hard day of ordering others about. 😂. Thanks for taking us along! It was a treat!
Very welcome! What else can a lady do on a couch like that other than swoon (as I type this lying on the sofa like lady muck myself 🤣)
I like these smaller houses especially the " downstairs " parts it was really interesting to hear about the origin of night,night sleep tight something my Mum always said and me too ! ❤
Thank you! I love these little origin stories, always fascinates me how they catch on and become part of language. I prefer "downstairs"'too ❤️
Thanks for sharing Lucy a pleasure to watch and especially with your knowledge well done. ✨✨✨✨
My pleasure 😊 I love making them! I was nervous about this one as it's not really my expertise but I enjoyed learning too!
This is absolutely great video, I feel like I was there, thank you Lucy, I really enjoy it😊👍👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it! And happy to have you travel with me! I am very lucky!
Thank you
Very welcome ❤️
Thank you for sharing, enjoy your videos, hope you enjoyed your break, shame about the weather 😢
The rain LOVES me, but I don't mind. I don't enjoy warm weather very much. I love a crisp autumn day with blue sky :)
Love my Sunday night video from you. Very interesting as usual, and you looked great in the scullery maid cap! Thank you.
Hahah thank you. I think if it was a bit bigger it would have been spot on (didn't realise until I put it back on the peg it was for kiddos 🤣)
Enjoyed...
I knew when I subscribed to your channel it was going to grow
Oh thank you. That's such a lovely thing to say. Fingers crossed for many many more adventures ❤️
really interesting ❤
Thank you, glad you enjoyed ❤️
I have not been to Great Yarmouth since I was about 12, but it still looks SO familiar. My grandad visited Yarmouth at least a couple of times a year, he loved it
Isn’t the architecture gorgeous?
This was a fascinating house to explore!
Hope you had a fab time over there
I loved it, honestly I was surprised how much I liked it. Norfolk stole my heart! Can't wait to go back! Always head West to Wales so it was a lovely coastal change.
@@throughlucyslensAnything that puts me close to water always makes me happy
Hi Lucy, absolutely loved the mooch round the house. So many interesting things. Hope you are having a great holiday. Am looking forward to your next discovery. Thank for your work and bringing history alive.
Very welcome! I loved this little house, even better when you haven't got a clue what to expect. Perfect x
I remember my Gran using a mangle when we lived with her in the early 70s - the buttons on her stocking tops would get caught. And I'm told we were washed in a tin bath in front of the fire... Though Mum very swiftly bought a caravan bath and water heater at the local auction rooms and put a bathroom in!
Moms are brilliant aren't they? I too remember taking a bath in front of the fire when I was a kid, imagine the health and safety now 🙃
Another fabulous video well enjoyed!! What a beautiful house + your humour is always a highlight + ended off with a very honest and true message about helping maintain these places with our patronage!
Absolutely. I'm always shocked how many places I go to and I'm the only person there .. or one another lonely soul wandering around with guidebook. These places are so important!
@@throughlucyslens it breaks my heart! It's hard being in a country that's dripping in hundreds and hundreds of years of history all around us, people forget how good we have it, or worse, only think that you find history in a museum and don't stop to even look around them.
Absolutely! The desensitisation of awesomeness is real!!!!
I enjoyed visiting this house before Covid and really enjoyed it. Yarmouth has some interesting history when you can see past the amusement arcades.
Absolutely and I was shocked to be honest. Between us (and anyone else that reads this) I thought I would hate it, thought it would be all arcades and chips .. which I do like, but not for a whole week!
Very nice to see. Thank you.
Thank you too, you are welcome ❤️
Thanks for another interesting video Lucy! I think the bed had a braided rush pad over the ropes. They did that so you didn't feel the ropes through the mattress.
Ohh I didn't dig in, I'm always scared to get told off 🤣 thanks for sharing, thanks great!
Was in Gt Yarmouth few months ago for a meeting, would have visited this house if I’d known about it, really interesting Lucy thank you xx
Oh please so if you go another meeting there: it's lovely ❤️
What a really interesting house! That they wanted to present several different generations of owners, and the way the home would have looked when they lived there makes the house more quirky and appealing. It’s got character, doesn’t it?
Yes! And I loved the way every room was different and you had no idea what was coming next - the squirrel tea party room was such a quirky bonus!
What a lovely place, thank you for taking us there xxx
Thanks for coming with me ❤️
Those buildings are sooo gorgeous and I am in lust with that William Morris wallpaper! Thanks again !
Very welcome. The wall paper is beautiful isn't it? I'd love to visit the William Morris house!
Hi Lucy, thank you for sharing. Love looking around houses and have never been to this one so will have to add it to our list. Looks wonderful. Hope you enjoy your holiday. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ♥
Thankyou. It was lovely, all over too fast as usual! Yes put it on your list, it's really quirky and you will enjoy it x
I am Dutch 😅Half way through this super interesting vlog. Yesss Dutch text in the window. Quite a puzzle though... looks like a warning to watch out when the wind comes your way... because everything can change in an instant...
~ great vlog Lucy!🌷
Ohhh I love that though! A warning! Especially if you are sailing a large ship - thank you so much for that! Love that window even more now 😍
@@throughlucyslensI would love to go over and have a look myself. Indeed close to my town Amsterdam 😊
I’m a huge fan of “ghost signs”, and at 4:14 is a superb stone carved example “Port and Haven commissioners offices”
It's a smasher isn't it? I love ghost signs too. Sadly there wasn't one on my own shop - I was hoping there would be.
Haven't been to Great Yarmouth. Will have to go visit.❤ The kitchen range 👍😃
It's a lovely town. I didn't know what to expect, I thought it was all going to be brash sea side but absolutely not!
Great vlog. Thank you.
Very welcome. Thank you ❤️
An old house tour! And Lordy there’s a map! Sunday made.❤️
Hahaha I am a big fan of maps! Helps me visualise straight away :)
Very nice house 😊 thank you
So nice of you, and very welcome.
Thanks Lucy ❤ What a beautiful beach & I’m so glad that house has been saved, so fascinating to see how people lived all those years ago. You know what always surprises me is the snobbery between staff members. I would have thought that they would have been really supportive to each other but no status in the household ruled.
Absolutely! It's the same in an office, when I used to do admin work years ago someone with the same job felt superior because they had been there years before - we humans are funny old things aren't we?
@@throughlucyslens sure are Lucy 😵💫😵💫
Wonderful ❤ from US/West Virginia
The Appalachian mountains are the oldest in the United States except for the Blue Ridge mountains and they are attached to the Appalachian mountains.
.. and it's my dream to see them! How amazing to live so close.
So very interesting. To see the way the rooms were set up is stunning. Thank you for a lovely visit.
Very welcome! I am always pleased to have you travel with me!
He was really in love to install a pump as a wedding gift!
I know what a lucky lady!
Thank you Lucy,,,it was beautiful to see.
Very welcome! Thank you!
@@throughlucyslens 🤗🤗
I spent many happy holidays in G Yarmouth.. and yes the rain there at the end of June can be torrential 😂 Thanks for the tour Lucy it was amazing 😘👍💚
Very welcome Dax. I'm really looking forward to going back. Norfolk really took my heart!
Been in the Elizabethan house before, the displays are quite different. The conspiracy room when I went in the house had a couple of mannequins in 17th century clothes sitting at the table.
If you like this house, there is a similar but bigger house in Ipswich called the Christchurch mansion.
I'm glad they moved the mannequins, they always freak me out and make me laugh in equal measure - especially if they are bad ones! Thanks for your lovely comment and I'll check that other place out; I can't wait to go back to this neck of the woods x
Oooh we visited here last year while on holiday, thoroughly enjoyed it , thank you for this .
Aww very welcome! It's lovely it's it - a real mix of all sorts but I love going to a place I have no idea about and coming away with new information.
@@throughlucyslenswe thought it was delightful, a true hidden gem !
Very interesting, Lucy. And you always make me smile with your jokes.
Thank you Maria! My Dad was sooo funny! I think I get a tiny bit from him x
Really interesting visit!❤️🇨🇦
Thank you! Thanks as always for coming with me x
WOW Lucy - I've been to Great Yarmouth so many times, visiting a friend who lived in Caister on sea. I NEVER knew about this house ! It looks fantastic and of course, you did it perfect justice. Sadly, my friend is no longer with us, and I can't see myself returning to GY any time soon. Thank you so much for finding these places and letting us in on your adventures. Fascinating piece of information about 'sleep tight' ! Thanks Lucy for all you do. Take care 🙂
Thank you. I'm sorry to hear about your friend, Caister-on-Sea is beautiful. We stopped off there on the trip home for a fry up in a lovely greasy spoon! Glad you enjoyed the video and love having you come along with me for the ride x
Thank you for letting us mooch around with you!!!❤ Yes the house is a hod-podge of all of the peoples lives and experiences. I think that's pretty neat, but some who want everything to match and be cohesive might freak out a little. Lololol!!!!
Just wanted to let you know also about the toilet video, I'm not very sure she was Dutch, considering my mom and I were the genealogy folks of our family. So I don't have any idea where she'd come up with it. I've never heard anyone else say it.
So Lucy, thank you again for being our tour guide so we can all mooch around with you! Love 💕 Heather from Iowa USA.
Very welcome. I love taking you! Yes I imagine fans of highly curated museums would freak at this one indeed 🤣 I love it when I have absolutely no clue what's coming and this place did that in spades!
That was a lovely video. Right up my street!
My favourite part was the stained glass windows. Its a shame they are original to the house though.
I used to work, voluntary, at Lyme Park in Disley and I really disliked the house there. It's tiny with cramped little rooms, and it's very dark.
I would love to work here at this house, though.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Sometimes I do visit places that are so dark and cramped: I recently visited a place in Sussex for the channel and it was so dark and cramped I couldn't do a video even though it would have been interesting.
I loved every minute of this video Lucy, thank you 😊 What a fascinating place to have a nosey round 😀
I remember wash day when I was young, it was always on a Monday and we had a washing machine of sorts, a tub that you filled up with water which heated up, and of course there was a mangle! I was always puzzled that you added a bag of blue to make the whites look whiter, it made no sense to me!😄
Yes!! The blue powder - totally unrelated (but that's what I'm like) I have some friends in the Middle East and their whites were soooo white it took my breath away - they still use the blue powder and of course the hot sun to bleach the washing. Never seen white linen like it 🤣
@@throughlucyslens Oooh, how lovely ☺ I've done a bit of digging around on the Internet and found that it was called Recketts Bag Blue, there's even an article on it on the National Trust website 😀
Sorry, that should be Reckitts
I'd spend hours in that house, no worries the periods weren't all sorted.
I wish I had longer to look around, I always leave with the worry I've missed something!
And now Lloyd Grossman is in my head...
Hahahaha have you "deliberated, conjugated and digested"? Bring back LG I say!
@@throughlucyslens Who lives in a house like this? David, it's over to you!
Hi Lucy! We actually love the Tudor/Elizabethan and Medieval periods and would love to see more of those houses, etc. We love the early half timber thatched cottages and would love to see some of those that might be museums as well. Love you and your channel! Thank you! Greetings from Adam and Mary in our little 250 year old cottage in New Hampshire, USA!
Amazing, that's great to hear and really opens my horizons too. I've been struggling to find the post 1950s houses to explore,'I've made some enquiries but nothing yet - I know of literally hundreds of older places I can show you.
@@throughlucyslens ❤
I would like the doll's house. I'd like the squirrel's tea party , if they weren't actually real squirrel's.
I sort of like the squirrels too, they are so funny ..
But like you a nice stuffed teddy bear version would do me!
That must have been like paradise coming from B'ham to a beach(OK which is closer B'ham or Amsterdam to Yarmouth)! There we are, Basil Brush can trace his ancestry - lol ! If there is a knife cleaner by a tap just use the tap(sell the knife cleaner) ! Talking about that method of washing, it was far worse if you lived in a coal mining area in the early times ! If you went on a detour, end up at Bernard Matthews's mansion, bootiful !
Amsterdam I reakon.. the drive up the A47 felt like it took a whole day 🤣 ohhh I kept talking about Bernard M and his Norfolk turkeys while we were there!
I can’t work out if the squirrels cracked me up, or grossed me out 😭😁
Same 🤣🤣🤣 I totally wasn't expecting to see them that's for sure!
Hi Lucy love your videos I have subscribed now too if you listen to the part when you said do you believe that at time on vid 7.11 a quite man's voice says yeah please will you listen it sounds like a spirit voice please let me know if you heard it it was clear xx
Ohhh I'll go back and listen with my headphones on and see what I hear, I'll come back to you x
the phrase "sleep tight" is supposed to come from the use of ropes on a bed. and tightening them up to get a good sleep. But that is perpetrated ? to being a myth!
There are conflicting theories all over the internet pertaining to the word tight in the saying actually meaning "to sleep safe" but I can't find any solid evidence for either. Maybe it's just a lovely quirk.
Did you visit the rows museum? I think that might be just your style!
I didn't unfortunately. I wanted to go to the tide & time too but we didn't have time - gives me an excuse to return!
@@throughlucyslensplease do! This video really made me want to visit 😁
RE - Bernard Matthews and the turkeys.......his ex PA is an ebay seller, I know her !
Amazing!
@@throughlucyslens told me a few Norfolk words
Have a bit of a research on the electric shock thing.. it wasn't what you are thinking.. they are commonly on sale everywhere these days it seems.. battery operated.. they were designed to give the Dr's a rest from the manual stimulation they were expected to do, for females suffering hysteria.. there's lots of images of these to be found from the actual era.. but I think you may find it funny if you were not aware of what the machine was really used to do 😂
Oh man.. I do know about them 🤣🤣🤣 that's kind of grim isn't it ... if you are interested in the more unspoken history I can really recommend a podcast called Betwixt the Sheets - it's blinking brilliant! ❤️
@throughlucyslens yes it's hideous.. but most things are to do with the treatment of women. Surane Jones did a great history perspective of witches and Prof Ron Hutton was on there.. he's a great person to listen to on podcast too.. thanks for the tip I shall seek it out!
Hi Lucy, I am so glad you uploaded a video today! I must tell ya I got the biggest laugh when you took a sniff of that bar of soap then said “ I just love the smell of carbolic soap. “ I thought “huh, what does CAR BOLLOCK SOAP, smell like??” I thought about it for a moment let my imagination run wild and said to myself, “self, why not turn on the cc, she’s a UK woman who has the same sort of accent as one of your fave old time rock n rollers Ozzy Osborne.”Turned on the CC and Sure enough, it carbolic soap! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🧼🧼🧼🧼. I never heard of it before, now I know! Take care, thanks for the laugh & the tour it was great! Have a great week! 💕🇺🇸
Aww thank you! Yes I indeed share an accent with Ozzy! He was born in Aston maybe 5 or so miles away from where I am sat now. His house is still there but it's privately owned now. Glad I gave you a laugh, I'm always "paranoid"'about my accent (get it? 🤣) ❤️
@@throughlucyslens hey girl! Linda C here! Yes we had this discussion via text and your e mail account. Talking bout Beatles and your fave mo ie by Them Backbeat and me not being able to see it change of VPIN or not. Boo!
@@throughlucyslens yeah so I’ve been trying to stay away from the elections over here. Reading bout the mess in the UK too. It’s horrible but I get it…people are scared where their next meal coming from, the rich getting richer….come on….Who can spend a Billion in their lifetime?? Crazy! I hope you’re ok, and do not do not do not change your accent…it’s soooooo cool! Take care now 💕Linda C